My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.